GIST OF THE DAY

Paul Okoye aka Rudeboy is nothing short of amazing as he displays his vocal capabilities on this new song titled Reality.

A woman has died after being injured during a bar fight in a seaside resort in Lincolnshire.

Black Diamond boss, Wande Coal teams up with UK-based disk jockey, DJ P Montana on this fresh afro-beat joint titled ‘Tupac’.

A 15-year-old Indonesian girl who was raped by her older brother has been jailed for six months for having an abortion.

Deaths due to liver diseases are on the rise in the United States and researchers have blamed it on the increasing consumption of alcohol.

Of late, fiery Apostle Johnson Sulaiman has not ceased to curry controversy through his remarks on socio-political issues and prophesies.

The Eden Hazard transfer saga rumbles on with reports that the playmaker will be offered £13m a year at Real Madrid, making him the club’s best-paid player.

No nation will become great when half of her population ends up only in the kitchen and ‘the other room’, or get disproportionately discriminated against in the higher echelon of corporate management and in governance.

A manipulative Kenyan beauty queen has been given a death sentence for murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him 25 times.

Park Geun-hye, the South Korean former President who was jailed for 24 years for corruption, has been slammed with an additional eight-year jail term for receiving bribe from the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).

Veteran Nollywood star, Saidi Balogun, explained that the fake life most Nigerian celebrities are accused of living, are caused by fans.

Paul Pogba’s future at Manchester United remains in doubt following suggestions he wants to leave the club after a turbulent season under Jose Mourinho last year.

Professor of Islamic Political Thoughts at Yusuf Maitama University, Kano, Umar Labdo Muhammad, has revealed those that perpetrated the killing of innocent Nigerians in Plateau State recently.

Manchester United are reportedly confident of signing Toby Alderweireld from Tottenham Hotspur before next month’s transfer deadline. The Belgium international was heavily tipped for an Old Trafford move in June but the negotiations reached an impasse after Spurs placed a £75m price tag on the defender’s head.

ANDROID fans have been put on alert about shock claims that Google are planning on scraping the hugely popular smartphone and tablet OS.

Arsenal target Bayern Munich's winger, Kingsley Coman It's been a busy transfer window so far for Arsenal - with five new additions already coming through the door at the Emirates this summer.

Britain’s showy launch of a new fighter jet project at this week’s Farnborough Airshow has laid bare political tensions that are threatening to tear Europe apart and deepened scepticism about the future of European defense cooperation.

A quarterly earnings report without big writedowns represents a victory of sorts for General Electric boss John Flannery. Sure, the U.S. conglomerate’s earnings fell by nearly one-third year-on-year in the three months ended June 30 – but at least the nature of the challenge is now clear.

Barry Silbert invested early in ethereum classic and enthuses in public about the virtual currency, which has recently risen in price even more than bitcoin. Some securities lawyers say his posts on social media could raise red flags for regulators.

Over 500 youths of communities under Oil Mining Lease (OML) 30 on Friday stormed the secretariat of the Ughelli North Council and the palace of the Ovie of Ughelli, HRM Wilson Ojakovo, to protest purported plot to rid them of their jobs. The youths who are under the employ of the OML 30 surveillance contractor, Mr. Morris Idiovwa, warned that any move to clamp down their means of livelihood will be strongly resisted. It will be noted that a group, led by Richard Irorobedje, had in a protest, reportedly, accused the contractor of siphoning money and having nobody in his employ. Explaining the issues at stake, the spokesperson of the protest, Chief Samuel Oghotomo said that since June last year, there has been relative peace in communities host to the oil block due to the engagement of youths in the surveillance of oil facilities in the area. While noting that the surveillance job is not an “entire Isoko or Urhobo business” and that it is different from the Cluster Developm...

The latest round of U.S. tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods could hit the Apple Watch, health trackers, streaming music speakers and other accessories assembled in China, government rulings on tariffs show.

No fewer than 600,000 indirect jobs have been lost in the fishing sector due to lack of regulation and sea robbers in the last two decades. Also, some facilities, equipment and infrastructure worth billions of dollars are rusting away at various fishing jetties due to the harsh operating environment and pirates on the waters. According to the Nigerian Trawler Owners Association (NITOA), the sub-sector, which had helped to create 6,000 direct and 600,000 indirect jobs in the past, has lost some of its industrial fishing trawlers to sea robbers and pirates. Within the last two decades, no fewer than 130 vessels had gone into extinction because of the activities of sea robbers and lack of foreign exchange to purchase new ones. Besides, fishing vessels from Europe, which are operating illegally on Nigerian coastal waters have edged the local companies out of jobs because of incessant poaching. The association noted that there were about 50 firms  owned by Nigerians ...

International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) is backing a new cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar, in a partnership with U.S.-based financial services provider Stronghold that adds stability to a sector known for its volatility, the companies said.

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has reiterated its commitment to tackling drug abuse. Its President, Ahmed Yakasai stated this during a training for reporters in Lagos. It was part of activities by the society marking the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking According to Yakasai, drug abuse has reached unprecedented level across all the geopolitical zones in the country. “The continuous loss of lives to drug abuse and misuse is really disturbing. This has really perturbed us as professionals. We have put up measures to tackle the menace. We have started with internal regulation and sanitising, which brought us to realise that out of about one million pharmacies operating in Nigeria, only 50,000 renew their licence annually,” he said. Yakasai unveiled a report of a  survey by PSN. In the survey titled: ‘’Pharmacists’ perceptions and knowledge and attitudes on the menace of pharmaceutical drug Abuse in Nigeria’’, the body said only 16...

A leading American based Information Technology Company; Finger Print Data Solutions, with track records of great impact in the technology space in the States, has signed popular Comedian, Patrick Onyeke, and better known as Mr. Patrick, as its brand Ambassador With the new deal, the comedian, who is popular for his comic skits which air of TV, will now be the face of the company’s App, ‘My Neighbours Kitchen’. According to the management of Finger Print Data Solutions, the new App is loaded with features that will amaze users when they download it. The outfot also announced that plans are in place to shoot the advert commercials which will be on billboards, television and radio stations commercials, road shows and several others platforms both in America and in Nigeria. Confirming the deal, the comedian said; “I am just super excited about this new opportunity to work with Finger Print Data Solution Company. It is an honour to be chosen and I will work with them to the...

Leading smartphone maker, Infinix Mobility, said in adherence to its well-outlined objective to constantly deliver quality products to its young, tech savvy consumers, it has added to the Smart series: Smart 2 and Smart 2 Pro. Infinix Mobility has long been reckoned as a smartphone brand that does not compromise on its remarkable tech-focused, bold and stylish smartphones that caters to all of its consumers. The devices from the brand have also have been renowned as a tool used to empower its target audience to be become trendsetters within their various fields of expertise. The Smart series is an entry level smartphone from Infinix Mobility. It is widely known to possess features that integrate the latest tech trends while still being budget friendly. The Smart 2/Smart 2 Pro are revolutionary devices and serve as substantial step up from its predecessor within the subset of Infinix smartphones. Both the Smart 2 and Smart 2 Pro come in sleek design measuring at 147.5x71x8.3...

Kwesé TV, Nigeria’s newest satellite pay-TV network, and telecommunication company, 9mobile, have signed a distribution agreement for the sale of Kwesé TV decoders through 9mobile Experience Centres across Nigeria. With this partnership, prospective Kwesé TV customers can walk into any participating 9mobile stores and purchase a Kwesé kit comprising a dish, decoder, including one-month free subscription, and installation for N10,960. The participating centres are 9mobile Experience Centres situated at The Palms Shopping Mall, Ikeja City Mall, Adeola Odeku Street on Victoria Island, Mushin, Surulere and Festac Town; all in Lagos. Kwesé TV offers 70+ premium channels for family viewing with an extensive programming line-up including wholesome children’s programs, live sports, lifestyle shows, movies, series and so much more! Kwesé’s appeal is not only its world-class content but its innovative industry-first ‘pay as you watch’ payment model which gives customers the choice bet...

Nollywood actress, Georgina Onuoha, celebrated another academic achievement as she bagged a Masters degree in Health care sciences. The mother of twins, who is based abroad, shared pictures from the Segerstrom center of Arts where she got a Masters of Science in Health care sciences, rejoicing with her daughters after the graduation ceremony. “When you hear that lonely voice telling you; you can’t play a drum, dig in and play that drum as if your life depended on it,” the 37 year old wrote about her achievement. “This didn’t come easy for me. All odds were against me. Health was weak, less than four hours of sleep each night for 2 years. “Work as a health consultant was brutal because it required daily reading and data analysis and processing. In between I have to be a mom (yes single parent) and as well manage my businesses. There were nights I considered quitting because the stress was enormous but my daughters kept telling me, mummy you can do it. There were days and n...

The Deputy Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has stated that the ruling party (APC) is still evolving and there will always be differences. He stated this on Friday on a live national television programme monitored in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. Peterside, who is also the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), maintained that the APC-led Federal Government had done well in the past three years. He noted that what a lot of people had been seeing as internal combustion within the APC was part of its evolving process, where people with different tendencies would always struggle to realise their political ambitions, with all the issues being resolved internally. The NIMASA chief said: “APC as a party is still evolving. There will always be differences and there is no time when all the issues can be resolved, but we are doing and have done well.” Peterside, who was the 2015 governor...

Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna has expressed shock over the death of former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Ibrahim Coomasie. In a statement signed by the governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, he said that with the death of the former IGP, Nigeria had lost one of its last standing patriots, who served the nation with distinction. The governor, who said that Coomasie made his mark as a public servant, and a respected leader, described him as a highly patriotic, reliable and committed Nigerian, whose invaluable counsel would seriously be missed. “Gov.  Nasir El-Rufai has received with a deep sense of grief news of the death of Alhaji Ibrahim Coomasie, the Sardaunan Katsina and Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF). “On behalf of the people of Kaduna State and the State Government, I will like to extend my heartfelt condolence to the family of our respected elder and leader, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie. “Ibrahim Coomassie...

Swiss regulators are stepping up efforts to halt an exodus of cryptocurrency projects from the country, after two of only a handful of banks active in the nascent sector shut their doors on it in the last year.

Hong Kong’s banking regulator and seven banks, including HSBC Holdings PLC (HSBA.L) (0005.HK) and Standard Chartered PLC (STAN.L) (2888.HK), on Tuesday said they will jointly launch a trade finance platform in September using blockchain technology.

Ethiopia has passed a law that grants amnesty to political prisoners who have been released recently and reverses decades of security-obsessed rule.

There were bodysuits, boots and masks galore in San Diego as thousands of comic, superhero and anime fans flocked to the opening of Comic-Con on Thursday.

At least 13 people including children drowned after a tourist “duck boat” sank during a storm on a lake in Missouri, and authorities were set to resume a search on Friday for other missing victims, Missouri Governor Michael Parson said.

A Screen shows the prices of bitcoin at a virtual currency exchange store in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Seung-il Ryu/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The good news for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies keeps coming this week after the bitcoin price jumped by over 10% a few days ago. Now the South Korean financial regulator is reorganising so it can "proactively respond to financial innovation in the fourth industrial revolution era" — meaning it's looking to nurture bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain. The regulator — the Financial Services Commission (FSC) — has created the Financial Innovation Bureau to take oversight of the burgeoning crypto sector. "The FSC plans a major organizational reshuffle to better protect financial consumers and proactively respond to financial innovation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era," an FSC statement read. "The new Financial Innovation Bureau will also be tasked with policy initiatives for financial innovat...

Alice Eve will play the villain Typhoid Mary in the second season. The show has also teased another villain on its Twitter. Netflix and Marvel's "Iron Fist" got the spotlight at a panel during San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday, and we now know that the show's second season will drop to the streaming service on September 7. "Iron Fist" is one of six of Marvel's Netflix shows that are loosely part of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. The others include "Daredevil," "Jessica Jones," "Luke Cage," "The Defenders," and "The Punisher," of which the second season is currently filming. Of all of them, though, "Iron Fist" has been the most chastized by critics. The show's first season, which premiered last year, has an 18% Rotten Tomatoes critic score, the lowest of any of the Netflix Marvel shows. But it has found an audience and is one of Netflix's most popular Marvel shows. ...

This massive storm could last for months. Martian dust storms can make nasty sand devils look cute, and every six to eight years, they can grow large enough to engulf the whole planet. Global-scale storms happen when several smaller ones kick up enough dust to envelope the planet's surface. But since they only occur every once in a while, scientists still don't know much about them, including why they form and how exactly they evolve. They'll soon have a treasure trove of data to work with, though, now that NASA'S Martian probes have trained their eyes on a massive storm that's currently covering the planet with cloud and haze. [The images used for this video were taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Mars Color Imager.] The smaller storm scientists spotted on May 30th turned into a planet-wide event by June 20th. It forced the solar-powered Opportunity rover to go on standby and conserve its energy, but the younger nuclear-powered Curiosity rov...

The evacuation of Syrian rebels and civilians from the border area with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights began on Friday as buses started to depart the area, according to a witness and the war monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s request to U.S. President Donald Trump for a joint investigation of former U.S. officials sought by the Kremlin for “illegal activities,” including a U.S. ambassador to Russia, is just the latest effort in a years-long campaign to undermine a U.S. law that imposes financial sanctions on Putin’s officials.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, vowing to stay in office despite challenges at home and abroad, said she would work on Germany’s “under pressure” relationship with the United States but that Washington could no longer be relied on to deliver world order.

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday called on the European Union to strike a new deal to prevent a hard border in Northern Ireland and demanded Brussels quickly respond to her ‘white paper’ plan to avoid a damaging no-deal Brexit.

  U.S. President Donald Trump defended his efforts to build a relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in an interview broadcast on Friday, saying they got along well but their conversations were “not always conciliatory.”

The Presidency on Friday urged Nigerians to ignore tears being shed by some selfish leaders in the country. In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, the Presidency considered a communiqué issued by some ethnic and sectional groups assembled in Abuja recently as the shedding of crocodile tears by selfish leaders, who felt alienated after a transparent and accountable system halted their disproportionate survival on resources of the state. He said “The communiqué issued by the leaders of some socio-cultural organizations led by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and some ethnic and sectional groups had accused the Muhammadu Buhari administration of incompetence in handling the security situation in the country. “The Presidency urges Nigerians to ignore the unholy alliance by these groups who are stepping up their assault on the All Progressives Congress administration as it expands its national dominance and moves closer to securing an ...

Ondo State Police Command, yesterday, paraded a notorious car snatcher, Mr Adeyemi Adeoye, for alleged vehicles’ theft in Ondo State. Adeoye, was arrested with two other suspects for stealing three vehicles at different locations in the state capital, Akure. The two other arrested suspects – Ayeni Paul, a tailor and Abiola Anifowose, who is a vulcaniser, were members of the same car snatchers’ gang. Mr Adeoye, who was an ex-convict, was arrested and paraded alongside his colleagues before newsmen at the police headquarters in Akure.  The police said police detectives from Lagos State had earlier nabbed the principal suspect in September 2016 after he was trailed to Akure for stealing some vehicles. It added that the 28-year-old notorious car snatcher, who specialised in stealing CRV Honda Jeep cars, had stolen no fewer than 35 vehicles. Femi Joseph, the Public Relations Officer of the Ondo State Police Command, said the suspect had been apprehended twice by the police...

The Kogi State Police Command has summoned Senator Dino Melaye to report at the State Criminal and Investigation Department after his armed guards fired on a team of policemen on patrol duties in the state. A police sergeant was the victim of the shooting, the police said and is recuperating in the hospital. The Kogi Police Command asked Melaye to report at the SCIID office in the state capital, in the company of his armed guards, as an investigation began on the shooting. According to the police, their statement, signed by DSP William Ovye Aya, the PRO, was partly to refute Melaye’s allegation that he was shot at by the police. On the contrary, the police said that Melaye’s guards opened fire first, with the police responding. In posts on Instagram, Melaye did not mention any shooting incident. However, he claimed the police tried to block his convoy with a grader, parked on a bridge, while he was on his way to Yagba east to commission some projects. According ...